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Instinct

Founding Engineer
Oct 2025 – Jan 2026San Francisco, CA
TypeScriptReactDistributed SystemsAI/ML

Built all core platform primitives and frontend for the enterprise offering.

Highlights

  • Built a double-entry ledger system processing $200k+ in payouts and invoicing
  • AI review pipelines for posts, applications, task completion and payouts, enabling autonomous platform operation (~200k video reviews)
  • Near turing-complete automation service and event system (n8n-like, 80k executions)
  • Organization and user profiling feeding into RAG
  • Horizontally scalable queue and container infra
  • Real-time chat at peak handling 20k+ simultaneously online users

Architected the platform to effortlessly scale from 0 to 70k MAUs, 30M+ API requests and Terabytes of video data.